Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

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As sunlight filters through the trees and the soft hum of conversation fills the air, you sit in a café, cradling a warm cup of coffee. In this serene moment, a thought crosses your mind: Is ...

A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...

Over two decades ago, psychologists argued strongly against the computational view that meaning could arise from combining arbitrary linguistic symbols. The most famous argument that computers cannot ...

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When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative ...